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J. B. GENIN.

HOSE COUPLING.

(No Model.)

Witnesses;

- N. PETERS Pholo-Lllhngmpher. Washington. D. a

UNITED STATES v PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. GENIN, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO ENOOH H. TOWNE, NAPOLEON P. HUNT, AND GEORGE M. WOODWARD, ALL OF SAM-E PLACE.

HOSE-COUPLING.-

eiPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,066, dated December 22, 1885.

To all whom/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN B. GENIN, of the city and county of Worcester, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new 5 and useful Improvement in Hose-Couplings;

and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification,and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, of myimproved coupling and two pieces of hose connected by it. Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken through the clamping mechanism.

The nature of my invention is duly defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

In such drawings, A and B denote the two pieces of hose, there being extended into both of them, at their next adjacent ends, a tube, 2 0, having at each end a rounded flange, a.

Encompassing each hose at or near its end is a rabbeted annulus, D, provided with two handles, 1), projecting from it, as represented. The bore '0 of the annulus is circular, and has 2 a diameter corresponding to or about to that of the hose extending within it. Furthermore, there is within the annulus an elliptical rabbet, d, whose larger axis is in line with the two handles, and there extends from the bot- 0 tom of the rabbet into such rabbet a circular flange, 6, whose inner periphery is a continuation of the bore 0. Within the elliptical rabbet are two crescent-shaped or arched jaws, E, the intrados of each being semicircular. 5 At their crowns these jaws bear against the inner curved periphery or surface of the rabbet, and have ears or projections, f, extending laterally from them into the space g immediately around the flange e, and also into a cir- 0 cular groove, h, in a cap-ring, i, applied to the Application .filed September 28, 1885. Serial No. 178,469. (No model.)

inner side of the annulus. On turning the two jaws around within the rabbet until their crowns shall be next the handles, a hose is to be inserted in each annulus D. Next the tube 0 is to be inserted endwise within each hose, after which, by partially revolving each annulus D about such tube and the hose, the two jaws of such annulus will be forced toward each other and upon the hose, so as to contract fice to clamp a hose to the said tube.

I claim-- 1. The hose-coupling substantially as described, composed of the flanged tube 0, the flanged or elliptically chambered or rabbeted annulus D, and the two curved or crescentshaped jaws E, such jaws being arranged within the said annulus, and provided with means of sustaining them thereon, and all being to operate essentially as set forth.

2. The combination of the tube 0, flanged at each end, as represented, with the two flanged and elliptically chambered or rabbeted annuli D, and their pairs of crescentshaped jaws E, arranged within and applied to them, substantially as set forth.

' JOHN B. GENIN.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, ERNEST B. PRATT.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 333,066.

It is hereby certified that thename of one of the assignees in Letters Patent No. 333,066, granted December 22, 1885, upon the application of John B. Grenin of Worcester, Massachusetts, for an improvement in Hose Couplings, was erroneously Written and printed Napoleon P. Hunt, Whereas said name should have been Written and printed Napoleon P. Hiiot and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record ofthe case in the Patent. Office Signed, countersigned and sealed this 16th day of February, A. D. 1886.

H. L. MULDROW,

[SEAL] Acting Secretary of the Interior.

l Counter-signed:

, M. V; MONTGOMERY,

Commissioner of Patents. 

